Lynn Cohick, Ph.D.

Professor of New Testament
On Faculty since 2000

Education

Ph.D. in NT/Christian Origins from University of Pennsylvania, 1996

About Lynn Cohick

I enjoy studying the Apostle Paul and his epistles within their larger Jewish and Greco-Roman environments. I am interested in how Jews and Christians lived out their faith in the Roman Empire, as well as how Jews and Christians today can better appreciate and understand each other. I study women in the ancient world, and explore the impact of feminist thought on New Testament studies. I had the privilege of teaching overseas at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya, for three years (1998-2000). When I’m not teaching or writing, I enjoy reading mysteries and jogging with my husband, Jim.

Courses Taught

BITH 213 NT Literature and Interpretation

BITH 325 Biblical Interpretation and Hermeneutics

BITH 352 Paul of Tarsus

BITH 353 New Testament in the Mediterranean World

BITH 354 Women in the New Testament

BITH 356 First Corinthians

BITH 357 Women in Early Christianity

BITH 365 Prison Epistles

BITH 469 Second Corinthians

BITH 552 Jewish Background to the New Testament

GEND 494 Gender Studies Capstone

Membership in Professional Societies

North American Patristics Society

Society of Biblical Literature

Evangelical Theological Society

Institute for Biblical Research

Research

Research interests include Pauline Studies, Jewish / Christian Relations in the Roman Period, Christian Ethics, and Women in Jewish and Christian Traditions.

Publications

Books

Philippians in The Story of God Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.

Chapters/Articles

“Mothers, Martyrs, and Manly Courage: The Female Martyr in 2 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, and the Acts of Paul and Thecla” pages xxx-xxx in A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer. Edited by N. DesRosiers and Shira L. Lander. Providence: Brown University Press, forthcoming.

“Ephesians, the New Perspective, and the Christian Life,” pages xxx-xxx in The Apostle Paul and the Christian Life: Ethical and Missional Implications of the New Perspective. Edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph Modica. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, forthcoming.

“Intertextuality in Melito of Sardis,” pages xxx-xxx in Intertextuality in the Second Century. Edited by Jeffrey Bingham and Clayton Jefford. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

“Women, Children, and Families in the Roman World” pages 179-88 in The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts. Edited by Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013.

The Drama of Ephesians: Participating in the Triumph of God by Timothy Gombis (Grand Rapids: InterVarsity Press, 2010) in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54.3 (2011): 638-39.

Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity in The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library by Luke Timothy Johnson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) in Bulletin of Biblical Research 21.3 (2011): 433.

Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings of Paul and Luke by Seyoon Kim (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008) in Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, 29.1 (Spring 2011): 129.